Capability Manager
Department for Work and Pensions
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Do you have a strong background in developing People strategies and implementing initiatives?
Do you have excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to bring people together to deliver successful outcomes?
Our Digital Capability and Spaces team enables digital to attract, recruitment, build and retain quality talent by learning, hiring and working together. We are creating a diverse, inclusive and engaging workforce where high performing teams are empowered to deliver. As part of this team, you will help overcome and find innovative solutions to the challenges in the Digital skills space . You will elicit and share insight with colleagues, from technical specialists to senior stakeholders both across the civil service and externally.
In this role you will lead projects and deliver a quality service to the business. Your purpose is to develop and successfully deliver across a range of Recruitment Strategy projects. You will inform diversity and inclusion strategy, using your wealth of knowledge in this space. You will contribute to end-to-end recruitment process improvements across DWP Digital, including the implementation of a customer relationship management system. You will be critical in ensuring implementation of such strategies to a quality standard, on time and within budget, meeting DWP Digital’s resourcing demands whilst ensuring all governance and policies are adhered to.
Your excellent stakeholder management skills and ability to bring people together will drive successful outcomes. Your experience in a capability-build and people environment will enable you to inform change and improvement to the business, to make business critical resourcing decisions and secure value for money. There is a varied range of responsibility, whereby you’ll work effectively with others to implement change in a positive way.
Does this sound like you? If so, apply today!
Job description
You will have the opportunity to use your broad expertise in a similar position – to ensure that the Recruitment Strategies for DWP Digital are clear; deliverables remain on track; progress is monitored and communicated; and the priorities are right. Your experience in being able to present information in a clear and engaging way for senior stakeholders and colleagues across the organisation will be a critical enabler to achieve this.
For all elements of your work, it’s imperative that you work closely with stakeholders across our Digital teams, including technical specialists and senior leaders; HR; external suppliers and partners; other government departments; and of course your team mates within Recruitment and Digital Capability. It’s therefore essential that you have exemplary communication skills and like working with people! You will:
- Research, develop proposals using an evidence base, present business cases, test, implement and evaluate for various resourcing challenges in DWP Digital
- Build strong relationships with key people across the organisation, and particularly, in each Function and Communities of Practice which will facilitate you maintaining a thorough understanding of the current and future business needs and being able to ascertain and propose where changes or re-prioritisation in various Recruitment Strategies may be needed
- Track and maintain progress and co-ordinate regular reviews, reports and presentations
- Enable us to understand more about the art of the possible of recruitment innovation in the organisation, wider Government and the industry, including for priority roles, to shape our plans and decisions.
This is a really exciting and varied opportunity where there is a lot to do but you will be part of creating a big positive impact and making sure our existing activity is the best it can be and anything new we do is both brilliant and in line with insight, need and priorities. If you can handle lots of information and detail, meet tight deadlines but be flexible and adaptable when things change, remain resolute and proactive when facing challenges, and produce fantastic and engaging presentations, then please apply.
NB - it would be desirable to have the CIPD (Level 5) qualification or be prepared to work towards it and have experience working within a Digital environment.
Person specification
When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:
- Experience working on resourcing strategies within the HR function
- Ability to research using previous experience and networks to collate good practice for developing resourcing strategies and EDI initiatives focused on increasing a diverse workforce. Build this broad range of information to create a suite of best practice and considerations
- Ability to understand and complete data gathering and analysis from a broad range of data and information to identify the issues, and presenting findings and recommendations based on evidence
- Ability to build on findings and structure a plan around the right recommendations and their implementation
- Strong stakeholder engagement and management skills at all levels to involve those at key points and include them in developing initiatives
- Confident with producing progress updates and reporting via a wide range of mechanisms to various different audiences
- Effective project management skills - monitor and track plans, deliver to tight deadlines, prioritise effectively, mitigate risks, review performance, achieve successful outcomes, evaluation and measurement of impacts.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact natalie.selby1@dwp.gov.uk.
Benefits
Alongside your salary, the Department for Work and Pensions contributes 28.97% towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
- Generous annual leave – at least 23 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro–rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
- Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
- Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
- Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year’s continuous service.
- Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
- An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.
This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
Salary Information
Pay for this role is from £40,201 to £43,347.
Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.
Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary.
Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the next grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater.
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Selection process details
Stage 1: Application
Your application will consist of three parts:
1. A Personal Details application form.
2. Your employment history detailing your responsibilities, skills, accomplishments, plus your qualifications and relevant training. Please copy this information into the box field provided.
3. Personal statement up to 1250 words. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria listed in the Person Specification.
The sift panel will use the information in your employment history and personal statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge against the essential criteria above.
For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital.
Applications will be sifted at regular intervals from the date the posts are advertised. Please apply as soon as you can, do not wait until the end of the campaign.
Important Information
• You will be asked to complete your employment history any information that you would customarily share on a CV should therefore be entered onto the application form.
• Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered.
• If your employment history/personal statement contains any personal details your application will be withdrawn.
Stage 2: Interview
If you’re successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the experiences listed in the essential criteria.
Interviews will take place from mid October 2024. Interview dates to be confirmed.
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For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital.
A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.
Reserve list candidates will be posted in merit order by location.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action.
Reasonable Adjustment
At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.
We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via DigitalRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the “Reasonable Adjustments” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How We Recruit, page
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Job contact :
- Name : Natalie Selby
- Email : natalie.selby1@dwp.gov.uk
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- Email : digitalrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
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